Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, May 2, 1993                   TAG: 9305020107
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE INAUGURATES PRESIDENT

Morris, a former professor at the University of Richmond, told about 1,000 people at a ceremony that the ability to change is what the college will need most in the future.

"The capacity for self-evaluation and change is one of the features that distinguishes a first-rate institution from a mediocre one," he said.

He also warned that the Methodist-affiliated liberal-arts college must "continue to resist the prevalent trend toward secularization."

Morris succeeds Charles Sydnor, who resigned to become chief executive officer of Central Virginia Educational Telecommunications Corp.

Approximately 800 students attend Emory & Henry, which was founded in 1836.